Sentences with phrase «bear hunting success»

As a result of snow depth variations, polar bear hunting success and cub survival can fluctuate rather dramatically, which in turn can cause the subpopulation size to fluctuate as well.

It seems very odd to me that Pagano and colleagues suggested no reasons for the unexpectedly poor showing of polar bear hunting success during their study except a bit of hand - waving about higher - than - we - thought metabolic rates in the bears.

Not exact matches

The team recaptured the bears between eight and 11 days later, used the blood chemistry results to measure metabolic rate and compared it with the bears» activity and hunting success.

And «polar bears are dying out» when the Inuit were claiming success for the hunting ban.

The fact that spring mean snow depth of 50 cm or more was reported for four years in the 1960s, and one year in the 1970s (Ferguson et al. 2005: Fig. 2a) suggests that polar bear may have had an equally poor hunting success in those years as well — it just wasn't documented, as far as I know.

Snow depth over sea ice in spring affects the hunting success of polar bears on ringed seal (Phoca hispida) pups, but the relationship is more complicated than you might think and there is less data on this phenomenon than you would believe.

«Using video collar data, we documented bears» hunting behavior and foraging success.

«As the area of sea ice that polar bears can use for hunting declines, progressively fewer seals are accessible to the bears, and therefore the bears» hunting success likely declines as well.»